Performance testing: from zero to hero with k6 & Azure

Now that Azure DevOps load testing has been deprecated, and the Visual Studio load testing features will not be continued in further versions, it is more important than ever to find a suitable alternative.

In this session, I will explain why performance testing is important and go over the dos and don`ts.

I will dive into building performance tests with k6, which is open source and used by various prominent players like Microsoft or Amazon. We will explore why k6 is one of the best options in the market and look at its painless integration with Azure DevOps.

In this talk, we will start at the basics and dive deep by implementing a full-fledged performance test that checks a cloud web & service and verifies its compliance versus some SLAs.

Performance tuning an Azure App Service API with K6

On this session we will see how to assess the maximum performance of an ASP.NET API deployed into Azure App Service, create a baseline and understand how to measure it as we implement optimizations, deploy them and see their outcome versus the original performance baseline.

We will optionally check other performance measurements but the focus will be on understanding the pitfalls on this, why a baseline is good to have and understand its implementation and execution with K6 Cloud.

This is a fundamentally Best Practices practical session on how to implement and optimize an ASP.NET API, deploy it to Azure App Service, determine its performance, set up a baseline performance test and analyze how it improves with some optimizations with K6 Cloud.

The AI Rollercoaster: A Journey Through Progress and Peril

Join us on an exhilarating journey into the world of artificial intelligence. We'll explore its fascinating history, from its inception to modern-day machine learning techniques and deep neural networks. Discover the thrilling "Generative AI Brain Race" in an era of democratization and open-source. We'll also discuss future predictions for AI and its evolution.

Tech requirements: power and maybe internet
Target: anybody interested in a non technical but technical overview of todays situation and what it does really mean for us, and a glimpse to a possible future based on real numbers and facts, not speculations

Harnessing the Power of AI with GitHub Copilot: Turbocharge Your Development Workflow

Join us for an interactive session on leveraging GitHub Copilot, the AI-powered coding assistant, to supercharge your development process. Learn how to seamlessly integrate Copilot into your workflow, explore its capabilities, and uncover best practices to maximize its potential in enhancing code quality and developer productivity. Don't miss this chance to elevate your coding experience with AI!

requirements: fast Internet , non-filtered traffic to access LLM's and other AI services.
Target: Developers or Team Leads interested in the real abilities of GH Copilot.

If you are a .NET Developer, you are an AI developer!

Semantic Kernel is one of the biggest all time investments of Microsoft, it is at the core of their Copilot Stack and has been at the stage at all the main Microsoft conferences: Build, Inspire & the upcoming ignite. All the Microsoft board, from Satya Nadella, to Scott "Gu", Sam Schillace, John Maeda and many more. An amazing team is pushing this Open Source initiative to make it a first class citizen for AI orchestration for .NET, Python & Java. It enables us to create powerful AI worklfows, integrate with Foundation Models such as Gpt-4, integrate our applications with AI and do much more that we might think of...
On this session I will get you to understand this technology, what is it capable of and show you how to use it efficiently.

Enter the AI Agent era

On this session we will jump in into the future of AI, Agents or, also called Agentic systems. We will understand the concepts through raw, pure, practice - read hands on here - and I'll show you code that makes sense out of the nonsense and let you in awe of what is possible right here and right now. Shall we? ;)

AI - demos (with .NET code) - and fun.